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Mr Armstrong screwed his eye-glass round and stared at the speaker. "I beg your pardon," said he. "I say, sir, you might have written. Let me tell you, Mr Armstrong, that, as my dear relative's co-trustee and guardian " "I am sorry," observed the tutor, addressing Mrs Ingleton, "that Roger's cough is still troubling him.
The late lord's will had expressly and pointedly corroborated the natural and lawful authority of Lady Vargrave in all matters connected with Evelyn's education and home. It may be as well, in this place, to add, that to Vargrave and the co-trustee, Mr. Gustavus Douce, a banker of repute and eminence, the testator left large discretionary powers as to the investment of the fortune.
Thus Alaric obtained full control of Miss Golightly's fortune: for Figgs, his co-trustee, was, as has been said, a shadow. He obtained the full control of L20,000, and out of it he paid the calls due upon the West Cork shares, held both by himself and Undy Scott.
If her husband lays hands upon it, I'll haunt you. You have power to nominate Geoffrey Thurston as your co-trustee. God knows what may happen, and her rascally husband may get himself shot by somebody he has swindled some day. What I wished for mightn't follow then? I'm paying you to make my will and not dictate to me.
"It is a terrible position." "It is. My co-trustee died lately. I have never dared to have another appointed. I am bound to hand over the sapphire to my daughter on her marriage, if her husband consents to take the name of Montanaro." The bishop's face was ghastly pale, and the moisture started on his brow. I racked my brain for some word of comfort. "Miss Panton may never marry."
While he sat turning over the papers, his cousin and co-trustee came in. Herbert Lansing was a middle-aged business man, and he was inclined to portliness. His clean-shaven and rather fleshy face usually wore a good-humored expression; his manners were easy and, as a rule, genial. "We must have a talk," he began, indicating the documents in George's hand.
But enough of THAT THAT isn't what I asked you to come and see me for." The blood had rushed back to Paul's cheeks uncomfortably. He saw now, as impulsively as he had previously suspected his co-trustee, that the man had probably ruined himself to save the Trust. He stammered that he had not questioned the management of the fund nor asked to withdraw his proxy.
Then all proudly would she set the rudder straight again and turn the Jennie H back to the landing-stage where Jimmie, surrounded by his cohorts, all calm and cool in his magnificence, awaited this first evidence of "the trend of Cecelia Anne's inclinations." Not quite a year elapsed before Mr. Hawtry's genial co-trustee visited his little ward.
That afternoon Captain Oliphant sent a polite message to his co-trustee requesting the favour of an interview. Mr Armstrong found him in an unusually balmy frame of mind, anxious to go into the executorship accounts. Everything was square and exact. The rents and other receipts were all in order, and the amount duly paid into the bank.
Meanwhile I must go back and possibly find out some thing from Oliphant himself." Captain Oliphant, however, was in no mood for confidences. The sudden return of his co-trustee was extremely unwelcome at this juncture indeed so manifestly unwelcome that Mr Armstrong was convinced he had come back not a day too soon.
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